WhaleTales Tourism, Food, and Wine news headlines: 21 November

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WhaleTalesTourism, Food, and Wine news headlines

*   Brangelina’s Miravel Rosé is the first pink wine to have made the Wine Spectator Top 100 exciting wines list.  This year South Africa’s Hamilton Russell Chardonnay 2012,  Ashbourne Sandstone 2008 (also made by Hamilton Russell), and AA Badenhorst Family 2009 are also on the Top 100 list.

*   Hartenberg is hosting its annual Riesling Rocks Festival on 25 January, with our country’s best Rieslings available to taste, paired with gourmet deli food. Hartenberg winemaker Carl Schultz is regarded as one of the best local Riesling winemakers.  Tickets cost R120. (received via media release via Smart Communications & Events)

*   Indaba will run over only three days next year, from 10 – 12 May, SA Tourism giving the ‘stagnant’ trade show in Durban a makeover with changes being implemented over the next two years.  The focus will be to meet and engage, rather than man large stands.  SA Tourism Chief Marketing Officer Jan Hutton will meet with the tourism industry in Durban and Cape Town next week, to share her plans for Indaba 2014.

*   Tony Romer-Lee is said to be leaving the McGrath Collection at the end of the month, to start his own hotel consultancy.

*   Pinterest has launched Place Pins, showing travel related pins on a map, rather than with the other pins on a board.

*   Being held in a week during which the power of nature and the effect of climate change has been very evident,  it is disappointing to read that the Warsaw Climate Change Conference is stormy, and that the delegates do not appear to be reaching agreement.

*   5Rooms at The Alphen hotel has introduced an all-day Sunday Brunch. (received via e-mail from The Alphen)

*   City Sightseeing has announced that it is introducing a night tour of Cape Town of about three hours, departing at 18h00 from its Two Oceans Aquarium stop in the V&A Waterfront until 7 March.  Thereafter the bus departs at 17h30. It appears that this tour will not be on a Hop On Hop Off basis.

*   Beautiful Bo-Kaap is to be declared an urban conservation area, following a request from the community living there to protect the cultural heritage of the area.  Once this has been done by the City of Cape Town, any developments to any buildings in the area can only be done subject to approval.

*   Chenin Blanc gets a good write up in The New Zealand Herald, following The Beautiful South tasting of South African, Argentinian, and Chilean wines in London in September.

Chris von Ulmenstein, Whale Cottage Portfolio: www.whalecottage.com  Twitter: @WhaleCottage

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